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. AUGDST 23, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



867 



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|T will interest f lie GROWERS and RETAILERS to icnow tliat WE, 

 Samuel S. Pennocic and Charles E. Meelian, individually, and 

 the Philadelphia Wholesale Flower Market, have spent the best 

 part of the summer forming plans for a CONSOLIDATION. This 

 we have accomplished, the same to take effect about October I, 

 under the title of the S. S. PENNOCK - MEEHAN CO., their 



headquarters being located in the 



S. S. PENNOCK BUILDING, I608-I0-I2-I4-I6-I8 Ludlow Street, PHILADELPHIA. 



■ In making this announcement, the new company desires to call attention to the following solid 

 grounds on which it bases its claims to public patronage: 



1. FACILITIES. . The largest and most modemly equipped of any wholesale florist 

 establishment in the world. Centrally located, and having at its command an experience of twenty 

 years in knowing how to make the best of these facilities for the benefit of customers. 



2. ORGANIZATION. The next most important consideration— developed on practical 

 lines through years of experience — has been brought by selection and elimination as near perfection as 

 possible; and constant vigilance is the watchword in this department, to the end that each employee may 

 by fair but firm treatment show the best that he is capable of, not only for his own sake but for that of 

 his employer and the public — the interests of all being in the long run identical. 



3. SERVICE. Great stress is laid on accurate filling and delivery of orders. Telegrams, 

 phones, messages of all kinds, verbal or written, receive the careful attention of competent heads of 

 departments, so that no one need feel any hesitation in forwarding hurry up-orders. The organization 

 and service are so complete that it is almost impossible for any hitch to occur. 



4. STOCK. This, of course, governs everything. If the goods are not there, no sales can 

 be made. The Pennock record in this connection^of always having everything and the best of every- 

 thing — speaks for itself; the Flower Market or Meehan record — which has behind it some of the best 

 growers in this vicinity in addition to careful and shrewd development — also adds its weight. 



5. QUALITY. The quality of stock reaching the Philadelphia market is unexcelled, as the 

 awards at the various competitions in New York, Boston, Chicago, and other centers, amply attest. 

 In many lines our growers lead the world. 



6. QUANTITY. The enormous shipments of fine flowers that reach Philadelphia every 

 morning render it possible to fill the most exacting order almost any hour of the day or time of the 

 year. If a thing is to be had at all, here is the place to find it. 



7. KNOWLEDGE. Last but not least, " knowledge." Knowledge of the customer and his 

 wants, gathered from long experience; also a ready and sympathetic willingness to help him out in 

 emergencies; knowledge of what to send and what not to send; this knowledge is the rarest of all and 

 has been a corner-stone in the building up of the two great businesses under consideration. 



8. FINALLY. We feel that by this consolidation we have made a leap of ten years into the 

 future, and in all the important qualifications: in facilities, in equipment, in organization, in stock, in 

 quantity, in quality, in knowledge, and in service, it is at the forefront of twentieth century enterprise, 

 and offers itself confidently to the whole country as the best place, both for the grower to market his 

 products, and the buyer to procure his supply of cut flowers, plants, and florists' supplies of all kinds, 

 and begs to subscribe itself in all sincerity as 



•THE" WHOLESALE FLORISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 



S. S. Pcnnock-Mcchan Co. 



1608 to 1618 LUDLOW STREET, PHILADELPHIA 



